Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink

by Richard L. Currier

we have become the unbound masters of the biosphere.

This has enabled us to create a global culture and society that transcends national boundaries.

At the present time, an eighth metamorphosis is under way, set in motion by the key technology of digital communications. For the first time in human history, it has become possible for anyone on Earth to interact with almost anyone else on Earth, quickly and affordably. Human society will be transformed as much by this latest metamorphosis as it was by the seven key technologies of the past and the seven metamorphoses they unleashed.

strong, stable nuclear family is an indispensable feature of all successful human cultures.